Hook.



l. P. REINIG.

Patented Mar. 26, 1918.

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JOHN 1?. REINIG, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 26, 1918.

Application filed October 25, 1917. Serial No. 198,367.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN P. REINIG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in :Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a hook designed more particularly for connecting suspenders to trousers, but thesame is also useful for other purposes.

One of the objects of my invention is the provision of an inexpensive fastening of this kind which permits a ready engagement with and disengagement from a suitable eyemember.

A further object is to so construct the hook that it is firmly and reliably anchored in-the goods to which it is attached.

In a the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a fragmentary view of a waistband and a Suspender-end provided with the hook. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 22, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the hook-member.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

1 indicates the cloth facing, 2 the canvas reinforcement and 3 the liningof a pair of trousers at the Waistband. 4. indicates a suspender-end. 7

Attached to the waistband is an eye-member 6 of any suitable construction.

The hook is preferably bent from a single length of spring wire and comprises the shank 10, the billor hook proper 11, a keeper 12 and transverse stops or anchoring bars 13'. The bill is comparatively short, as shown, and the keeper extends to, ornearly to, the free end of the bill but is not interlocked with it. While preventing accidental disengagementof the bill from the eye member, the keeper canby this construction be sprung laterally as well as toward the shank 10. This enables the hook and eye members to be easily and quickly separated,

and by making the bill rather short, as

shown, it can be conveniently disengaged by a relatively slight movement.

The bend which connects the shank of the hook with the keeper passes through the thus receive the strain on the hook member and firmly anchor it to the suspender-end or equivalent part. As shown, the keeper consists of a straight bar formed of a single thickness of wire, while the bill, the shank and the cross bars contain two thicknesses which are formed by doubling the wire on itself, giving the keeper the requisite resilience and the other parts the necessary strength and stiffness.

I claim as my invention:

- 1. A hook provided with a comparatively short bill and a keeper extending to the free end of the bill without interlocking there with, whereby the keeper is free to be deflected laterally as well as toward the shank of the hook-member.

2. .A hook provided with a comparatively short bill, and a keeper, consisting. of a straight resilient bar arranged substantially parallel with the shank of the bill and extending from the farther end of the shank JOHN P. REINIG.

' Copies. of this patent may be obtained. for five cents each. by addressing the (iommissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G." 

